When you take three day weekends you have to make the most of your four day work week. Today was a good start - so good in fact that I couldn't carry out my plan to plan out and shop for all my meals this week!I sat at my desk for the entire time Will was at daycare today except for a short lunch break and a trip to the grocery store. I shopped for our dinner but didn't have time to plan the rest of the week. It's still my goal to do that tomorrow, so it'll just be three meals instead of four. I made carne asada for tonight's dinner which doesn't require much time to cook but it's best if you can marinate the meat for several hours beforehand which is what I did. I prepped it up after lunch and it was ready to go for dinner. My sister joined us and she enjoyed her first taste of carne asada! My neighbor gave me some tomatoes from his friend's garden so I used them to make fresh pico de gallo as a topping for our flank steak.

](http://blog.self.com/fooddiet/blogs/eatlikeme/assets_c/2010/08/IMG_5926-71641.html)For lunch I had a salad with shredded cheese and deli turkey on top. This was a plan I did follow through with this week. Last week I made a big salad and ate it throughout the week. It really helped me get my veggies in. Last night I did the same thing and already it's making for easy lunches by having it around.Today was a strong start to the week. I am hoping to keep the pace up so that I can enjoy another long weekend starting on Friday!